The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-01-21
In the South.

! very poor health all winter. So l decl-
ded TO go in search OF my health, if /
/ died or the trail.
| | bought tickets at CipeinnaCi of a
/ pale, sallow liar, who is juss beginning
TO work his way up to the fcrty-ninth
degree in the Order of Annanias. He
will surely be beard from again some
day, as be has the elements thsS go to
make up successful liar.
He SAID hat 1 could go through from
Cincinnati to AsAeville, n. c., only
one easy change of cars, and in about
tweBty three hours. 1t took me twice
that and 1 had to change cars three
timer in In the dead of night.
The Southern railToRd is not in a
fiourisaiIg condition. It ought to go
sOmewh ere fer its health. Anyway, it
! ought 10 go somewhere, which at present
it does EOt. According to the old Latin
pToverb, presume we sboUls say moth
ing bet good of the dead, but 1 am here
to say that the RAILROAD that knocked my
spine loose last week and compelled me
TO carry lunch baskets and large Norman
two-year-old gripsacks through the
gioamsng till my arms hung down to the
ground, does a0J deserve to be treated
we'll, even after death.
do not feel any antipathy toward the
SOath, for did not take any part in the
war remaining n Canada the whole
| time, so that 1 could not be accused of
of. orfrc 81
avofs5t & anything that wOald look like a
settled conviction in these matters, re-
/ tanning always a fair, bipartisan and
neutral idiOcy ia relation to all national
affairs 30 that 1 might be regarded as =
| good civil service refeTmeF, and perhaps
at some time hold an Office
{ To further illustrate how fair-minded
| lam in these matters, Z have patiently
/ read all 5he war articles written ''y both
/ sides, and have not tried TO dodge the
I foot notes or the margiHsI references or
the war nGDs or the memoranda. have
read all these things until don't know
who was victorious, and If that is not a
fair, and impartial way 60 look at the
war, / don't know how 10. proceed in
order to eradicate my prejadices.
But railroad is not political OF
sectional matter, and it ought not to be
q. local matter, unless the train stays at
one end of the line all the time This
road, however, is the.one thaudischaTged
It's engineer some years ago, and when
he took his time check he said he would
now 60 to work for sure-enough road
with zeal irmi rails to il, ipAsad Of two
streaks of rust and a right Of way,
All night long, except when va, were
changing cars, we ratified 5.'ong over
wobbling trestles and third mortgages.
The cars were graded from third class
down. The rosd itself was not graded
at ALI
They have the same old air in these
: coaches that they started out. with
s Different people, with various styles of
breath, have used this air and then re
turned it. They are using the same air
that they cid before the war. Il is not,
sstrictly speaking, a national air. II is
more of languid air, with dark circles
around the eyes.
A. one place where 1 had an engage
ment to change cars, we had wait of
four hours. and 1 reclined on hair
cloth lounge at the hotel with the intsn-
tion of sleeping part of the time.
Dear, patient reader, did you ever try
to ride refractory hail cloth lounge all
night, bare Back? Did you ever get
aboard a short, old-fashioned hair-cloth
lounge, with disposition to buck?
was told that this was a kind of
family lounge. that would not shy or
make trouble anywhere, and [ had only
closed my dark red and msurnful eyes
in sleep when this lounge gently bumped
itself, an03 shed me as it would its
smooth, dark hair in the spring, ira la.
The floor cadght me in its great
strong arms and I vaulsed back upon
the polished bosom of the hair-cloth
lounge. It was made Sor man about
fifty three inches in length, and 50 had
to sleep with my feet in my pistol peck
cts and my nose in my bosom up TO the
second Joint.
and climb on the lounge without wax
ing up. It got to be. second nature to
me. I did it just as a man who is hun
CRY in his sleep bites off large fragments
of the air and eats it involUntarily and
smaeks his-lips and sGorts. So [ arose
and deposited myself again and again
on that old sway-buck but frolicsome
wreck without waking. But couldn't
ges aboard softly enough to avoid wax
ing the lounge. 1t would yawn and
! rumble inside AMI rise and fall like the
deep rolling sea, till at last gave up
trying to sleep on it again, and curled
up on the floor.
The hair cloth lounge in various con-
ditions of deerepitude may be found al
through this region. Its true inward
ness is composed of spiral springs which
have gnawed through the cloth in many
instances. These springs have lost none
OF theif elasticity of spirits, and cordi-
ally corkscrew themselves into the af-
fections, of a man who sits down on
them. II anything could make me
thoroughly attached to the South it
would be one of these spiral springs
bored into my person about foot. But
that is the only way to remain on hair
cloth, char or sofa. No man ever
successfully sat on one Of them for any